A Comparison of Full and Single Channel Spread Spectrum Monopulse Trackers in the Presence of Jamming

The principal advantage of single channel monopulse (or pseudomonopulse) trackers versus full monopulse is the single channel monopulse system requires less hardware. The principal disadvantage is that the single channel monopulse has greater tracking jitter for a given interference level. The purposes of this paper are to compare, at the block diagram level, the hardware requirements of single channel and full monopulse systems and to quantitatively compare the RMS tracking jitter of the two systems in the presence of jamming. Band limited white noise and C. W. jamming are considered.